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Chapter Eight
When Frank got home he sat in the car looking at the house wondering how he was going to tell his son that his sister didn't want to come home. He finally got out and as he walked inside he saw Seto was there talking to Joey and they turned around when he came in and when Joey saw the look on his fathers face he said "Dad what's wrong?"
Tears filled Frank's eyes as he sat down and he said "I found your sister, she's the young lady living with Pegasus and her name now is Serena Walker."
Joey looked at his dad and then he asked "When is she coming back home?"
Frank said "Son she doesn't want to come home yet."
Seto then said "I can see her point, here she's been living with a woman she thought was her mother, then her Aunt and Uncle and now she's living with Pegasus and she believes her name is Serena and then she finds out that all her life has been a lie and now everyone wants her to come home and be Serenity Wheeler again, hell I'd be mixed up too. You really need to give her time to get to know who you are and let her decide who she really is."
Serena ran to her room in tears, as she laid on her bed she reached for her journal that her Aunt Della had given her so that she could write her inner most thoughts in and she turned to a blank page and as she looked at the page she picked up her pencil and she began to write her feelings and they came out in the form of this Poem:
I Just Want To Be Me
Fallen leaves blow in the wind
Colors of Fall dance in the breeze
Birds sing their songs as the sun sets
I look down in the water
I see a girl
I see a ghost of the past looking back
I try to see past it all
All I see are leaves blowing in the wind
Is this all that I am
Am I just a leaf blowing around?
No name
No home
I look back in the water and see nothing
Tears shed but don't fall
I look back to the water
I search for answers but just see leaves
I just want to stop blowing away
I want
I want
I want
Just to be me
When she was done tears fell on the paper and as she wiped off the page, there was knock on her door and she said "Come in."
Max opened her door and he asked her "Are you going to be alright?"
Serena smiled at him and she said "I really don't know. What do I do?" Max went over to where she was sitting on her bed and he sat down and the journal fell and when he picked it up it opened to the page she had just got done writing and he looked at her and she nodded that he could read it and when he was done tears ran down his face and he closed the journal and handed it back to her and he said "Honey, I can't tell you what you should or shouldn't do that's up to you. All I can tell you is try to understand how your father is feeling and then add that to what Joey must be feeling and then just give it time and I know that you'll finally be able to understand what you really want."
She threw herself into his arms and she sobbed "I know who I am even though they say my name is different, I'm Serena Walker and I can't go back and change myself into that other girl no matter how I try. I'm who I am and no matter how I try I can't be Serenity Wheeler. I don't want to leave here, this is my home now but I do want to get to know both Frank and Joey because they are part of my past. Does this make me a bad daughter because I can't be someone I'm not?"
Max held her to his chest and he whispered "No honey that doesn't make you a bad daughter at all. Just make real sure that this is what you want. I love you and it would make me very happy if you stay here but I don't want you to stay just because you feel you have to."
She smiled at him and she said "No one is making me stay here; I'm here because I choose to be. I need to talk to both Frank and Joey and let them know how I feel; will you please come with me?"
Max kissed her forehead and then he said "Honey, you know that I will, should I call and see if they will come here and all of you can talk."
Serena then kissed Max and said "Please, I really need to tell them what I've decided and I hope that they won't hate me after I tell them." Max prayed that both Frank and Joey would understand what she's decided to do.
Frank listened to what Seto had said and he had to agree with him and then he said "Son, we have to give her all the time she needs to figure out what she really wants."
Joey hugged his dad and he prayed that Serena would come home and be his sister again, even if she couldn't change her name back to Serenity she'd still be home where she belonged.
Just then the phone rang and it was Max and he said "Could you and Joey come over here tomorrow, Serena really wants to talk to the two of you."
Frank looked at Joey and then he said "We'll be there and thanks for calling." Frank then told Joey what the call was about and he looked at Seto and then he said "Why do I get the feeling that she's made up her mind to stay there?"
A/N: The Poem "I Want To Be Me" was written by loverskeeper. Thanks again for your help.
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